Image slider or Content slider or whatever you call it – it’s widely used on news and portfolio website to showcase their latest articles, product and featured content. The purpose is to increase the “accessibility” and interactions between the site visitors and website. Image slider not only making your website more user friendly, but it also help you to show up your content with attractive ways in a limited space.

It’s really important to deciding what types of image slider that you want to use – Flash image slider, JavaScript or pure CSS content slider, each has advantages and disadvantages. However, I think jQuery image slider has gained it more popularity than any other types, because it’s easy to use and has a lots of transition effects to choose from including, Ken burns effect, squares, fade, parallax effect, basic linear, responsive slider, circular animation, swipe, animated caption and much more.

In this article, you will find 43 useful tutorial, source code and WordPress plugins for creating jQuery image / content slider, please note that the list below is contain free and premium jQuery slider. You can choose a free one If you don’t have budget for that, but if you think you need a powerful jQuery slider with a lot of features, you can select a commercial one.

1. free jquery/wp responsive plugin slider

jQuery Slider Shock is a responsive Slider and the most complete slider over the web. Allows to add content from external sources (YouTube, twitter, Instagram and others,). and control almost any appearance aspect with an extense list of controls.

15. Creating a Slick Auto-Playing Featured Content Slider

16. Elastic Image Slideshow With Thumbnail Preview

17. wmuSlider

18. Slides

Slides is a slideshow plugin for jQuery that is built with simplicity in mind. Packed with a useful set of features to help novice and advanced developers alike create elegant and user-friendly slideshows.

29. Unleash jQuery Accordion Slider

30. Responsive KenBurner Slider jQuery Plugin

Responsive KenBurner Slider jQuery Plugin is the premium way of using a slider in your website. A combination of Ken Burns Effect, state-of-the-art Slider, Text Animations and Responsive rebuilding defines this slider.

40. TouchCarousel

41. LayerSlider

This is a jQuery content slider using the famous parallax-effect! You can create as many layers and sublayers as you want. You can use images or any other HTML elements, including Flash movies as layers.

43. Boutique carousel

44. Estro

This slider includes a smooth and powerful Ken Burns effect which is completely configurable and compatible with all major browsers (including ie7 to ie9, Firefox Chrome, Opera, Safari) and mobile platforms like iphone / ipad.